TIME MANAGEMENT

Everyone in the medical profession likes to concentrate on time management. There is more than one meaning of the phrase.

Let's take a journey. A journey through time. You are a child about five years old. You are in school now and feeling like you own the world. There are so many things to learn and see and do. Time goes on.

You are in junior high now, developing crushes and feeling a little awkward at times. You might even be involved in sports by now. There is volleyball for the girls and football for the boys. School is tough though. Those teachers are really making you work hard to get good grades.

Some of you may stop your education here and go to work because there is something called the "Great Depression" going on and you have to work on the farm to help make ends meet. Education will just have to wait. It's hard to get a meal around your house. Nice shoes and new clothes just aren't happening anytime soon. Your mom and dad are both working long hours or not at all because there are just not enough jobs around.

For some of you, high school is here now and you have found your one true love. You will be together forever. You have big dreams. You want to go to college or perhaps to the military. Life is changing so fast!

Time goes on. College is over now or you are serving in the military. You are working in the real world and moving on with life. You've married and have a family now with children of your own. My how they grow up so fast. You watch them grow and develop just as you did. You work really hard to make a better life for them.

Time goes on. You see society changing. The "colored" people now go to school with the white kids and ride the same buses and shop in the same stores. What's going to happen next? Time goes on. You soon find out that there are more wars that are going to happen. Your sons are drafted and many of them are killed in what seems like a senseless war. Your daughters are left with dead or disabled husbands. Your grand children are left without fathers.

Time goes on. As you get older, you notice that your health starts to fade. You feel tired a lot and just want to sleep. You just can't do what you used to. You try really hard to fight it, but it just like "old age" is really starting to set in. Before you know it, your kids and grandkids are scattered all over the country and you hardly ever get to see them. Time goes on. You find

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